On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 03:34, Erinn Clark wrote:
> * Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:08:17 18:46 +0200]:
> > I've been a member of LinuxChix lists for some time (I joined them even
> > before
> > I've heard of D-W) and I've often found a very polite and friendly
> > environment
> > there.
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 19:15, Jose Cedeno wrote:
> It's sad to see that a person is ignorant and wastes other people's
> time. Also he's arguments demonstrates his lack of knowledge in this
> topic. For example the name Debian comes from the main creator's name
> Ian + his wife's name Debra.
He's
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 22:16, MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2004-08-23 06:37:00 +0100 Jenn Vesperman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Women (in general) do not object to closed men's clubs where the club
> > is
> > nothing to do with social and professional advanceme
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 08:23, MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2004-08-22 20:33:50 +0100 Jenn Vesperman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If you need advice on how to create a men-only group [...]
> > But expecting me to fund, sysadmin and provide resources [...]
> > weird
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 00:12, MJ Ray wrote:
> I don't think it would be right or a solution, but anyway: what
> men-only groups are provided by linuxchix? Please reply off-list. I am
> not subscribed to debian-women.
None. Linuxchix has limited resources funded out of my own pocket (and
my husba
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 09:22, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > I don't see anyone proposing changing the fundamental Debian culture. It
> > would
> > be extremely cheeky to even consider it! "Hi, I'm new here, and I want to
> > be
> > part of your club, but first you have to completely change everythi
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 09:51, MJ Ray wrote:
> The idea of parts of the debian project being closed to a particular
> sex or race is offensive to me, yet some debian-women participants
> support similar moves in other projects or call things like linuxchix
> "a great community".
Linuxchix as a w
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 20:12, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> [Caution: words not minced.]
Understood.
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:16:29PM +1000, Jenn Vesperman wrote:
> > There are ways to have confrontation and challenge group-think without
> > being flamefesty or painful to read.
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 15:23, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> I thought I'd drop this in here, as it's a good description of how I feel
> about the culture of Debian, and what makes Debian a good thing.
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2004/08/msg00057.html
Hm.
In that letter, I have a couple
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 06:27, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> Have you ever heard of somebody writing a style guide to say that
> "Actually, it doesn't matter which way you do it"? Can you see why the
> notion of somebody doing this is absurd? That's a built-in bias. Style
> guides will only be written by
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 03:05, Erinn Clark wrote:
> > That is something else I think -women members should address: this
> > debian subproject is producing a set of documents which look like it
> > cannot be in debian because it is not free software. I didn't even
> > realise such things were all
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 13:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Do you have any Debian SIGs or groups in the area?
Honestly? I have no idea.
> Hmm... I've had idiots speak to me, but both females and males (it certainly
> isn't only men that make it hard for women to get involved in computers).
Thus
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 12:36, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> No, about the only thing you *really* need the DD badge for is uploading
> packages and direct access to the servers -- which is fair enough when you
> consider what you could do with that level of access, whether by accident or
> malice.
When
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 17:34, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> Do you mean that getting involved in Debian in some way is daunting? Or
> that approaching a Debian Developer you have done work with and who knows
> your abilities is daunting?
>
> They have very different causes and resolutions.
If there wa
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 09:47, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:54:23AM -0700, Akkana Peck wrote:
> > somewhat interested in documentation. Like Carla, I've been daunted
> > by what I've heard about the NM process, and also by difficulty in
>
> What have you heard about the NM pro
As an initial link collection, please feel free to look at Linuxchix'
links.
http://www.linuxchix.org/content/recommends/sites/
LinuxChix and Debian-Women are very closely related in purpose, so the
link sets are likely to be similar. Probably not the same, but similar.
:)
Jenn V.
--
"Do
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 06:04, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:28:01PM +0100, Helen Faulkner wrote:
> > I'm sure that this is not _intended_ to be unfriendly, or even sexist.
> > Maybe the people who wrote it, don't even realise why using such
> > language is a problem. But
On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 07:07, Erinn Clark wrote:
> Also, if there will be co-maintenance happening, some people will need to
> learn about revision control systems, which are used in many distributed
> projects in order to keep track of changes. There are a lot of them out
> there and they tend to
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 06:05, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Do document maintainers have to go through months of hell like package
> > maintainers to be officially accepted?
>
> If having to wait a few months for voting rights and formal recognition
> by the project is "hell" to you, I don't really h
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